AUDITION NOTICE

WHEN: Saturday December 14, 2024 - 10am - 12pm

Sunday December 15, 2024 - 10am - 12pm

Big Words

PREPARATION 

Cold readings

Script available upon request

Stipends available 

ABOUT THE SHOW

A frustrated would-be novelist, despairing of finding a publisher, returns home from New York City.

But a seemingly insurmountable challenge awaits him and rocks the very core of his being, while those around him struggle to help and to hope.

Playwright: Joey Chavez 

Director: Noah G. Simpson

Performance dates:  Febuary 6 - 23, 2025

Rehearsals beginning Thursday January 2, 2025.  Schedule to be established based on actors' availability.

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: 

NICOLASA Delgado: Widow in her fifties, Smart, very religious and

mother of RUBEN and LOUIS. Works at AutoZone.

RUBEN Delgado: In his twenties. Smart, former novelist who has

suffered a Hemorrhagic stroke. He now has Aphasia, Epilepsy and

struggles for words. He works part time at Lotaburger.

RAMONA: NYC Puerto Rican writer activist who has moved to New

Mexico to be with RUBEN. She is now studying to be a Speech Therapist.

LOUIE Delgado: Son of NICOLASA and older brother to RUBEN. He is a

lawyer and part time writer of cookbooks. Smart.